Staging History : Essays in Late Medieval and Humanist Drama.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Preliminaries -- 2 Towards an Understanding of Medieval Concepts of History: Four Kingdoms and Six Ages -- 3 Intellectual Background: Dislocation, Theatrical Characteristics, Ambiguity and Uncertainties -- 4 Staging History -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1 From Mrs Noah's "Rok" to Absalom's "Kultour": The Trail of the Spinning Woman and the Great Rising of 1381 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "That Wolde I Witte": Mrs Noah as Spinning Woman -- 3 "Out into the Squares and Marketplaces and Even the Fields": The Luxurious Liberality of Textual Access -- 4 From Mrs Noah's "Rok" to Absalom's "Kultour": The Trail of the Spinning Woman -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Playing with the Past: History in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and King Johan -- 1 Introduction -- 2 History in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament -- 3 History in John Bale's King Johan -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Historical Elements in Bale's Plays -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 History in the Long Shadow of Allegory: Revisiting the Morality Heritage -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall … History in Late Medieval Drama from the Low Countries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The 'Historic' Setting of Esmoreit and Gloriant -- 3 Charles the Bold, Margaret of Austria, and Emperor Charles v -- 4 Jacob Duym, King Edward and the Women of Weinsberg -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 "An Easy Commerce of the Old and New": Rhetoricians and the Use of the Past -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Rhetoricians' Drama -- 3 Drama and Poetry as Political Exemplars -- 4 All Human Life is Here … -- 5 The Suspension of Disbelief? -- 6 Die Belegheringhe van Samarien: The Source and the Art.

7 Tspel van Judith: Little Women? Educated Women! -- 8 Tspel van Hester en Assverus: A 'Godless' History? -- 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Staging Reformation as History - Three Exemplary Cases: Agricola, Hartmann, Kielmann -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Dramatized 'Historia': Johannes Agricola's Tragedia Johannis Huss (1537) -- 3 Carefully Compiled Sources: Andreas Hartmann's Curriculum Vitae Lutheri (1599/1600) -- 4 Why Mention Any Sources? Heinrich Kielmann's Tetzelocramia (1617) -- 5 History - Or Rather: Commemoration on Stage -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Dramatising History in Schoepper's Ioannes Decollatus and Grimald's Archipropheta -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Schoepper's Ioannes Decollatus -- 3 Nicholas Grimald's Archipropheta -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Helvetic Henry? A Swiss Adaptation of Henry v, or Something Near Enough -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Shakespeare and Swiss History -- 3 Language and Power -- 4 Constructing the Enemy -- 5 Custom and Kissing -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Geographical Index.

Staging History unites essays by nine specialists in the field of late medieval and early Renaissance drama. Their focus is on English, Dutch and Humanist German drama, as well as on a modern Swiss adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V.

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